Kenan Thompson Quotes
I'm very happy here at 'SNL.' I've never been in a hurry to leave because it's such a special place. It's never the same when you leave and come back.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
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I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.
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The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.
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I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.
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I'm very happy here at 'SNL.' I've never been in a hurry to leave because it's such a special place. It's never the same when you leave and come back.
